The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 March 2008, 676 words, David Humphries and Mark Coultan, p.1
Sydney has slipped behind other capital cities, particularly
Melbourne, in quality of life and standards of governance, according to
a consensus of expert opinions across government, planning, transport,
education, business and the arts.
The round table, convened late last week by the Herald, painted
Sydney as a vision-free zone paralysed by complacency, timidity and
indolence, where government lacked courage, commitment, energy,
imagination and sometimes probity, and where outdated bureaucracy was a
bulwark against progress and innovation.
* Property Council - Ken Morrison, Centre for International Economics - Kerry Barwise, University of Technology Sydney - Glen Glazebrook, Tourism and Transport Forum - Chris Brown